Unsteady on his feet, the muzhik continued to pour out his coarse abuse; when he saw Trirodov he opened his eyes wide and went straight to him.
A muzhik appeared and shouted at the top of his voice: "Hey there!
The muzhik had evidently only just jumped out of his grave; he was barely awake, and he had not yet realized himself or understood his condition.
The fool went to wash himself, and behind him came the muzhik with the straw.
The servant went to the ship and looked, and brought back word to the Tsar that 'twas but a single, miserable littlemuzhik [5] who was flying the ship.
They locked them both in the bath-room; the muzhik scattered the straw, and it became so cold that the fool was scarce able to wash himself properly, the water in the bath froze so hard.
The ordinary muzhik can hardly conceive that the Emperor's power can be limited by a law or an Assembly, and if the idea were suggested to him, he would certainly not approve.
The muzhik had not, even in those good old times, any passionate love of labour for its own sake, nor was he by any means insensible to the facilities for agriculture afforded by the Steppe.
It is only when the muzhik comes in contact with authorities that he shows himself an expert fabricator of falsehoods.
The best land was taken away and the taxes were increased, lest the muzhik should get fat and lazy.
The muzhik is naturally conservative, and is ever inclined to regard novelties with suspicion.
The muzhik turned a deaf ear to their instigations, and the police soon prevented their further activity.
The Russian muzhik would have no faith if he swallowed merely things of that kind.
The muzhik observes carefully--for he is very curious--the mode of life of his more advanced neighbours, but he never thinks of adopting it.
Thus, for example, when a muzhik is implicated in a criminal affair, and a preliminary investigation is being made, he probably begins by constructing an elaborate story to explain the facts and exculpate himself.
In this last remark I was obliged to concur, but since that time I have come to know the muzhik better, and an incident of the kind would now no longer surprise me.
In short, all the upper classes have invented a bit of cunning machinery by which the muzhik is made to pay for their pleasures and luxuries.
Yet all these voices were more sober, more subdued, more restrained than they had been, and presently a little muzhik whose poll was swathed in a red handkerchief stooped and raised Silantiev's head.
The reply came only after a pause; when the little muzhik asked: "What did you say?
A hardbitten muzhik as sunburnt as a stick of ergot, he has a black beard distributed irregularly over a lean face, a fawning smile, and eyes deep-sunken in their sockets.
With a frown the fair-headed muzhik eyed him, while the foreman returned the muzhik's gaze with a scrutiny that never wavered.
It is this: I hope some day to fall in with a good muzhik with whom to go in search of land.
I tell you it is terribly difficult for a muzhik to look after himself.
Give a muzhik enough to live upon for twelve months without working, and you will corrupt him for ever, so inured to rags and vagrancy will he grow.
I am the muzhik I ought to be, like every other muzhik.
One night the granary of the rich muzhik Veretennikov caught fire.
The question was asked by a tall reddish muzhik with a dirty apron and a broom in his hands.
When he jumped up he saw a huge muzhik coming toward him waving his hands, with a quivering, gory blotch instead of a face.
Though the muzhik cut a droll figure, Yevsey was sorry for him and for himself.
Near the car stood a little thin, sharp-bearded muzhik in a torn hat and short fur coat.
The little lean muzhik trying to crush his skull, stepped on it with one foot, and sang out: "Aha!
Before Yevsey appeared the gaunt red muzhik always half drunk, the sleeves of his dirty shirt tucked up, his right hand thrust in the breast of his apron, his left hand deliberately stroking his beard--Kuzin had a reddish forked beard.
His uncle seemed to Yevsey the very wisest and best muzhik in the whole village.
Or else any boor of a muzhik can wear a badge; and what will come of it?
You may teach the muzhik as much as you like but don't give him any rank--it makes a peasantry lose its best members and it always remains rabble and cattle.
The muzhik has his nature, and the gentleman has his.
The muzhik grown rich turns into a gentleman, and the gentleman grown poor goes to the muzhik.
Now there are many discreditable stories in circulation about the muzhik lord of Yasnaya Polyana.
In another story a muzhik is falsely accused of murder and accepts his undeserved punishment in a devout spirit of non-resistance.
The Muzhik gathered wild hemp stalks, laid them in water, beat them and broke them, and toward evening a good stout cord was ready.
How frightened the Officials were on the way, how seasick they were during the storms, how they scolded the coarse Muzhik for his idleness, can neither be told nor described.
Now they began to importune the Muzhik to find some way of getting them back to Podyacheskaya Street, and strange to say, the Muzhik even knew where Podyacheskaya Street was.
Thus day after day passed, and the Muzhikbecame so skilful that he could actually cook soup for the Officials in his bare hands.
There certainly must be a muzhikhiding here somewhere so as to get out of working.
The Officials took the cord and bound the Muzhik to a tree, so that he should not run away.
For instance, you see a bottle, or you see that it is raining, or you see a muzhik riding by in a wagon.
But where are we to fetch one from, if there is no muzhik here?
The Muzhiknow pondered long and heavily on how to give great pleasure to his Officials, who had been so gracious to him, the lazy-bones, and had not scorned his work.
There under a tree was a colossal muzhik lying fast asleep with his hands under his head.
The Muzhik rose and looked at the two severe gentlemen standing in front of him.
But what the bottle or the rain or the muzhikare for, or what the sense of them all is, you cannot tell--you cannot tell, not for a thousand rubles.
